07/03/10

An Advanced Open Water Certification or equal is required to take this course.  You must be at least 15 years old and have 20 logged dives.  This course will give you the confidence needed to travel and dive with other divers.  You are taught to recognize and stop diving related accidents before they happen and also how to handle any diving related accident in the event it does happen.

You will be certified as a Rescue Diver.   Anyone who is in good health, comfortable in the water and relatively fit can earn a Rescue Diver Certification.  You will utilize the text for the knowledge development portion, you will make a minimum of four pool dive to learn and practice necessary skills and you will make four open water dives at either a lake or ocean.  The Rescue Diver Course has been developed as a performance based course.  As you successfully demonstrate each portion of the course you move onto the next.  This allows you to move at your own pace.  The course can be completed in as few as two (very long days) or take up to 5 or more weeks. 

The cost of the Rescue Diver Certification covers course tuition, and Rescue Dive Manual, and Emergency First Response Certification. 

The student must provide a quality mask, snorkel, fins, weights and belt, regulator with console/compass and second stage, a BCD.  You the student will also be responsible for a wetsuit on your open water dives. If you do not own your own equipment Black Tip Divers has equipment that you may rent.  Please contact us prior to your class so that we can have the equipment you need.

Each student is required to have a dive log book.  Your Training will also required several pool dives. 

Price does NOT include, transportation to and from your open water dives, food, drinks or lodging during open water dives, lake entry fee, air fills during open water dives or wet suit rental for your open water dives.   For more information about certification email us at divercert@blacktipdivers.com

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